Word and Radical Components of 金色

The Chinese word 金色 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
金色	jīnsè	1. n. gold colour
金色		金色刺繡 - gold embroidery

金色 ⇨ 金 + 色

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
金	jīn	1. (obsolete) copper (Cu)
		2. metal
		合金 - alloy
		3. metalware
		4. gold (Au)
		金的顏色和黃銅很相xiāng似。 - Gold is similar in color to brass.
		5. golden; blond
		金髮 - blond
		他被獎勵了一塊金錶biǎo。 - He received a golden watch as a prize.
		6. (by extension) money; material wealth
		現金 - cash
		資金 - funds
		金錢 - currency
		7. (historical) ancient currency unit
		8. (historical) gong or other metalware for signalling commands in the military
		金鼓齊鳴 - the gongs and drums of war sound out in unison
		9. respectful; precious
		金玉良言 - precious advice
		10. Used in 金城 (gloss=impregnable city)
		金城湯池 - strongly fortified city
		11. Short for 金星, gloss=Venus
		12. one of the eight kinds of instruments (八音)
		13. one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行)
		14. (historical) The Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
		15. (historical) (syn of zh, 後金), the Jurchen Later Jin state (1616–1636)
		金聖-歎 - Jin Shengtan (Chinese literary critic)
		金焰 - Jin Yan (Chinese actor)
色	sè, shǎi, shè	1. color; tint; hue; shade
		顏色 - color
		顏色shǎi兒r - color
		紅色 - red
		四.色.定理 - four color theorem
		2. look; expression
		臉色 - facial expression
		3. scenery; circumstance
		景色 - scenery
		夜色 - night scenery
		4. kind; sort
		貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification
		5. feminine charm; beauty
		姿色 - good looks (of women)
		6. lust; sexual desire
		好hào色 - to lust for women
		色情 - pornography; sexual desire
		7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous
		8. theatrical role
		角jué色 - role; part
		9. metallic content
		成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy)
		10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance)
		色shǎi子zi - die
		11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.)
		色即是空，空即是色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
		12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate)

色 ⇨ ⺈ + 巴

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
⺈		1.
巴	bā	1. (ancient Chinese mythology) a huge snake that could swallow an elephant
		2. to greatly desire; to anxiously hope; to long for
		3. (Used as a suffix for objects that are located below or behind.)
		尾巴ba - tail
		下巴ba - chin
		4. (Used as a suffix for objects that are clumped together due to dryness or stickiness.)
		泥巴ba - mud
		5. to cling to; to stick to
		6. (Jilu Mandarin, Sichuan, dialectal Wu) to be close to; to be next to
		7. (Beijing, Jilu Mandarin) to open; to spread
		8. (Sichuan) to suit; to fit
		9. (Sichuan) to follow
		10. (Sichuan) to be intimate
		11. (Sichuan) to involve; to implicate
		12. (Sichuan) to kiss up; to curry favour
		13. (Sichuan) to subsidize
		14. (Sichuan) to infect; to contract
		15. (dialectal Mandarin, including, Beijing, Shandong, Xinjiang) to sew; to stitch on
		16. (Southwestern Mandarin, ;, Xiamen, Quanzhou Min Nan) dried object
		17. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese)
		打佢一巴 - to give him a slap
		18. (Jiaoliao Mandarin, Sichuan) along
		19. (historical) (place, zh, ancient state, in modern-day, p/Sichuan, t1=Ba)
		20. eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
		21. Short for 巴士, bus
		小巴 - minibus -
		22. (physics) bar (unit of pressure)
		23. (Cantonese) bar (solid object)
		電巴 - busbar -
		24. Short for 巴勒斯坦, Palestine
		25. Short for 巴基斯坦, Pakistan
		26. Short for 巴拿馬, Panama
		27. Short for 巴哈馬, The Bahamas
		28. Short for 巴拉圭, Paraguay
		29. Variant of 芭
		30. Variant of 笆
		31. Variant of 粑

巴 ⇨ 巳 + 丨

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
巳	sì	1. sixth of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
		2. snake (蛇) of Chinese zodiac
		3. Variant of 已
丨	gǔn	1. line
丨		2. be through up and down